12 Worst Games of All Time

Jake Valentine

June 9, 2025

We arguably live in a golden age of video games. It feels like every month, there’s an all-new, groundbreaking must-play release that you can’t miss out on.

It’s not always like this, though. There have been some real stinkers over the years, but even bad games can have some redeeming qualities.

Not these games; These are truly terrible, and the less said about them, the better. Here are some of the worst video games of all time.

Superman 64

I don’t know what it is about the inability to get a decent Superman game. No matter how many times developers try, they always fall short.

The worst is undoubtedly Superman 64, which is an absolute travesty of a game. If you could somehow look past the countless bugs and technical issues, you’d find an issue with a poor control scheme.

Even then, if you could somehow forgive all that, then you have to be resigned to the fact that the game made the idea of being Superman boring and uninspiring.

Lord of the Rings: Gollum

I don’t know who asked for a new game based on Gollum, of all characters. Somehow, this game exists, and I have to admit that I was tempted to give it a shot, given the poor reception it was getting.

There’s no reason this game should have ever been released. It’s an embarrassment to an iconic franchise that tanked so poorly, developer Daedalic Enteratinment announced that they were no longer making games, just publishing them.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The video game that was so bad, people buried it in the desert.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial the movie is a beautiful, magical tale that showcases Steven Spielberg at his best. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial the video game helped cause the video game crash of 1983.

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Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing

The idea of big rig trucks racing each other is cool, but what’s the point when the game doesn’t function properly?

On the one hand, the game lets you drive a truck. That’s where the positives end. There’s no hit detection, no actual gameplay, and it doesn’t resemble anything close to a finished product.

Alone in the Dark: Illumination

Once upon a time, Alone in the Dark was a respectable survival horror series.

That was over thirty years ago, and the survival horror genre has moved on thanks to the success of Resident Evil. Alone in the Dark, however, continues to flounder despite several attempts to revive the franchise.

The worst is easily 2015’s Illumination, a game that’s so bad it made the Alone in the Dark film adaptation, one of the worst movies of all time, look good.

Fighter Within

Do you remember motion controls? I sure do. Nintendo helped popularize them with the success of the Nintendo Wii. As a result, everyone tried to cash in on the fad, including Microsoft with the Xbox Kinect.

One of the selling points of the Kinect was Fighter Within, a 2013 launch title for the Xbox One console. On the plus side, the graphics looked neat. On the downside, why would anyone ever want to play a fighting game that relies on motion controls?

Think about how poorly that would work out. Fighter Within was worse.

Deal or No Deal

Adapting a popular game show to the video game format should be a slam dunk. Trivia games are great, and Deal or No Deal was super popular with Howie Mandel as the host.

The issue with the 2006 Deal or No Deal game is that with nothing on the line, the tension of Deal or No Deal disappears. It’s not worth playing if all you have to win is virtual fame and glory.

Charlie’s Angels

After the success of 2001’s Charlie’s Angels, the franchise was given the green light to expand. The sequel, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, was a disaster. Maybe the video game, 2003 beat ’em up, would fare better?

Alas, it did not. This should honestly have been a slam dunk, with the source material translating well to the beat ’em up genre. We’ve seen that work with The Warriors game. The issue there, though, is that The Warriors was developed by Rockstar Games. Charlie’s Angels was the debut title from Neko Entertainment, a studio that failed to put out any successful games throughout their existence.

Homie Rollerz

There are plenty of viable kart racing alternatives to Mario Kart. Homie Rollerz is not one of them.

First of all, who in their right mind okayed that name? Second, the game has the look and feel of a kart racer you’d play online, but its difficulty is way too overtuned.

Worst of all, the game handles so incredibly poorly that it makes you want to throw the cartridge back out and just go back to playing Mario Kart DS.

Ride to Hell: Retribution

In a blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of Sons of Anarchy, 2013’s Ride to Hell: Retribution shows what happens when a game gets stuck in development limbo.

Budget cuts and the closure of the game’s original developer meant that the final product looked nothing like the original goal. The outdated graphics and gameplay were expected, given that the game should have been released three years prior. Then there’s the embarrassing portrayal of women in the game, which leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Drake of the 99 Dragons

Shovelware is generally defined as low-quality games, usually with a minuscule budget, released with the sole purpose of being purchased by unknowing customers.

The Xbox and PS2 era was filled with shovelware, taking advantage of a customer base that didn’t have the power of the internet in their pocket to look up game reviews.

No piece of shovelware may be as egregious as Drake of the 99 Dragons. Nothing works here: the story, the gameplay, the characters, the action; it’s all mediocre.